On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 Oberon603@a... wrote:
> Someone wrote this to me. > > >>I saw Frederica von Stade recital last year, and she did this adorable > little encore that was based around "Voi che sapete". The words were > something like "I've told every little star just how sweet I think you are, > why can't I tell you?". Anyone know what it's called and who wrote it?<< > > Does anyone know what song she's talking about?
The song is Jerome Kern's and Oscar Hammerstein II's "I've Told Every Little Star", from their 1932 show MUSIC IN THE AIR. It was later recorded by sixteen-year-old Linda Scott and reached #3 in the Billboard Singles Chart in 1961. There was also a notable jazz rendition by Sonny Rollins.
In MUSIC IN THE AIR, the song is a duet sung by the romantic hero, Karl Reder (baritone), a local schoolteacher and lyricist, and the romantic heroine, Sieglinde Lessing (soprano), and aspiring young operetta singer. The show is a "Ruritanian" operetta set in Bavaria in the 1930, and also yielded the famous Kern ballad "The Song is You". For more info on the show:
http://www.nodanw.com/shows_m/music_air.htm
The complete lyrics of "I've Told Every Little Star":
I've told every little star Just how sweet I think you are. Why haven't I told you?
I've told ripples in a brook Made my heart an open book. Why haven't I told you?
Friends ask me "Am I in love?" I always answer "yes" Might as well confess If I don't they guess.
Maybe you may know it too; Oh my darling if you do Why haven't you told me?
Karen Mercedes ===== My NEIL SHICOFF Website: http://www.radix.net/~dalila/shicoff/shicoff.html
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